Do you find this man sexy? This is what happens when you swap female models for men on Instagram

You’ve probably heard of Instagram’s strict policies about nudity and the female body by now.

Like how they sexualise the female nipple by banning it while allowing men’s nips to be out and proud.

And yes, you will see partial nudity below.

You may also have heard of a growing number of female artists who are screwing those policies and continuing to showcase their photography, which plays with ideas of sex and gender, on the social media platform.

Friends and fellow male artists volunteered to take part in Bourne’s series, some photos are directly inspired by posts that had been previously been deleted off social media, while others are representations of how the male models feel women are represented in the media.

Bourne said to Metro.co.uk: ‘The nipple is the most common focus because it’s an obvious visual representation of inequality in gender. I just don’t understand how a body part that both genders have can be sexualized, censored and “offensive” for one and not the other.’

Dayton (above left) agreed when he explained why he took part: ‘Women’s bodies should not be seen as inherently offensive, and it shouldn’t be accepted that they automatically cause lustful thoughts.’

Not that sex is necessarily a bad thing or something to be shied away from, as Bourne told us: ‘I want the humans I photograph to feel empowered by their sexuality and embrace it whether they’re wearing clothes or not but, with that being said, I don’t believe that nudity automatically equals sex and/or porn.’

The resulting photos are arresting but strange to look at, simply because we just aren’t used to seeing men in these positions.

They almost look ridiculous, but why should they be? We see women photographed like this all the time in ad campaigns, even if social media platforms censor them.

Bourne explained: ‘I think everything in life, in media, in art and in this project is ridiculous. Maybe I should have been a bit more serious about it, but I deal with everything through humor, so of course that shines through into my art.

‘I want my photography to make people laugh once and a while whilst evoking thought at the same time. I’m just creating projects and writing about things that I want to see more of; it’s all for my own sanity really.’

Because it is men that are the subjects of the photos, we stop and question and look, rather than simply assume this is another photo of a ‘sexy girl’.

(Picture: Megan-Magdalena Bourne)

And ultimately that’s the point.

Despite models exposing all, we can’t see see behind the nudity when it comes to women.

Bourne reflected: ‘I photograph humans. I never feel like I’m photographing a “man” or a “woman”… the people in my photos are just that: people.

‘I want to capture each person in the best way I can and in a way that they feel good about themselves. I think, and I really hope, that that translates into my work.

‘I honestly debated calling this project “Humans Humans Humans” but, in order to combat the things I find absurd about gender, I had to highlight gender.